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ilNiTEn STATES PATENT OFFICEC WILLIAM B. SARGENT, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

NECKTIE-FAYSTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,993, dated June 5, 1888.

Application filed March 29, 1888. Serial No. 268,863. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to fasteners employed for securing a necktie or scarf to the person of the wearer, and has for its ob ject the production of a device more easy of adjustment, certain in action, and cheaper in construction than those heretofore employed.

To attain this end my invention consists, essentially, in a light metal tube, through which the holding-strap of the necktie passes, and from which extends at a right angle a hollow arm, in which the holding-pin, ofpeculiar construction,operates, all of which, together with the details of construction and operation, will be hereinafter fully described, the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, being referred to by figures and letters.

Figure 1 is a back view of my improved necktie-fastener with parts of shield broken away. Fig. 2 is a View of necktie-fastener and shield, taken through the line y y. Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the fastener with holding-pin withdrawn. Fig. 4 is a view of the holding-pin.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

The tube A is struck out of light, thin sheet metal, and is constructed slightly flaring at the mouth or upper end and of lesser dimension from the mouth downward than the breadth of the holdingstrap B of the necktie, so that the strap will easily enter the mouth of the tube and be slightly contracted or drawn together as afooting for the holding-pin. From the tube A extends the right-angled hollow arm or plate 0, which serves as a guide and stop for the holdingpin, and connects with the tube A at its point of juncture therewith.

The pin D is of peculiar construction in that it is formed of a single piece of wire and is bent back upon itself, forming two arms, one of which is shorter than the other and terminates in stop a, bent at a right angle beneath or against the pin proper. Both arms of this pin move in the ways of the arm or plate 0, and the backward or outward action is limited by the stop a coming against the pin 1), riveted to the arm or plate, as shown.

The device is attached to the under side of the shield, and from the body of the tube A are cut the stay-plates c c and bent upward at right angles, in which position they are passed up through slits cut in the shield, and are then bent over and upon the outer face, as shown in Fig. 1. Holding arms or plate d d d are also connected to the arm-plate O and lower face of the tube A, in which eyelets appear for confining the device to the shield by stitching or sewing; but the eye-holes may be dispensed with and these holding arms or plates utilized in the same manner as that of the stayplates 0 c by turning them up and passing the ends through slits in the shield.

In practice the device is attached to the shield so that the pin will enter the strap or band of the necktie at an angle a little above the horizontal, and the pin is pushed forward, passingthrough the strap in the guiding-tube at an upward angle, making the action of the pin more certain without the tendency of curling up the band in the tube, and the finger or thumb will push the pin forward until the outer end is concealed under the edge'of the scarf or necktie, as shown in Fig. 1, in which the dotted lines show the points of movement with the pin drawn outward to its limit and the bent end of one arm or limb against the stop-pin of the arm or plate 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The necktie-fastener herein described, which consists in a band or strap guiding tube, and a pin holding and guiding plate or arm connected to the said tube, and a retaining-pin adapted to operate and extend into the tube and pass through the strap or band to hold it in position, substantially in the manner specified.

2. In a necktie-fastener, the combination, with a strap or band guiding tube, of an intersecting pin containing and guiding arm or plate, with means for securing the same to the necktie, which consists of thin metal arms bent upward and adapted to pass through the necktie-shield and bebent downward upon the face end or hook to engage with a pin or stop in the {0 thereof, and a fastening-pin held in the guidguiding plate or arm in which the pin operates, ing-arm, all operated substantially in the manas in the manner described. ner described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 3. In a neoktiefastener, the combination, have hereunto set my hand and seal.

with a guidingtube and an intersecting guid- WILLIAM B. SARGENT. [L s] ing plate or arm having a pin or stop, of a pin Witnesses: composed of two arms or members, with one of 7.0. W. M. SMITH,

the arms or members terminating in a bent CHAS. D. WHEAT. 

